Re: Content-Disposition next steps

On 16.12.2010 19:29, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com
> <mailto:mjs@apple.com>> wrote:
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>     On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>      > Because (if I read the original message correctly -- please
>     correct me if I'm wrong) they're sniffing the UA to do it, and if
>     they do that, they'll presumably adapt their sniffing based upon
>     changes in the browser market (as anyone who sniffs and believes
>     that they don't have to monitor the market tends to get bitten, hard).
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> Yes, gmail sniffs the UA and emits RFC 2047 for Firefox and Chrome and
> RFC 5987 (RFC 2231) for Opera. The change to emit RFC 5987 for Opera was
> made rather recently (before that, non-ASCII characters were just tunred
> to question marks for Opera). Anyway, in case of gmail, it's relatively
> easy to make (at least I used to know where the code is and I hope it's
> still there for me to make a quick change).  Some other google products
> just turns non-ASCII characters to question marks for all the UAs (e.g.
> Google Docs) :-)   Obviously, it's a rather embarrasing bug to fix.

That would be great.

Actually, I'd change to emit RFC5987 for all UAs *except* those which do 
not support it yet (IE, Chrome, Safari).

>     Typically in cases like this you want to get sites to change before
>     breaking them. Often it takes surprisingly long for changes like
>     this to get implemented and pushed in a large-scale site, even for a
>     seemingly simple change.
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> Yes, sites have to change before RFC 2047 support is dropped in Chrome
> and Firefox.

Do we happen to know *which* other sites?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:00:07 UTC